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Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls.

Earnings' unreliability is one of the reasons Foolish investors often flip straight past the income statement to check the cash flow statement. In general, by taking a close look at the cash moving in and out of the business, you can better understand whether the last batch of earnings brought money into the company, or merely disguised a cash gusher with a pretty headline.

Calling all cash flows When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Ultimate Software Group (Nasdaq: ULTI) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. FCF = free cash flow. FY = fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over the past 12 months, Ultimate Software Group generated $24.0 million cash while it booked net income of $18.1 million. That means it turned 6.8% of its revenue into FCF. That sounds OK.

All cash is not equal Unfortunately, the cash flow statement isn't immune from nonsense, either. That's why it pays to take a close look at the components of cash flow from operations, to make sure that the cash flows are of high quality. What does that mean? To me, it means they need to be real and replicable in the upcoming quarters, rather than being offset by continual cash outflows that don't appear on the income statement (such as major capital expenditures).

For instance, cash flow based on cash net income and adjustments for non-cash income-statement expenses (like depreciation) is generally favorable. An increase in cash flow based on stiffing your suppliers (by increasing accounts payable for the short term) or shortchanging Uncle Sam on taxes will come back to bite investors later. The same goes for decreasing accounts receivable; this is good to see, but it's ordinary in recessionary times, and you can only increase collections so much. Finally, adding stock-based compensation expense back to cash flows is questionable when a company hands out a lot of equity to employees and uses cash in later periods to buy back those shares.

So how does the cash flow at Ultimate Software Group look? Take a peek at the chart below, which flags questionable cash flow sources with a red bar.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. TTM = trailing 12 months.

When I say "questionable cash flow sources," I mean items such as changes in taxes payable, tax benefits from stock options, and asset sales, among others. That's not to say that companies booking these as sources of cash flow are weak, or are engaging in any sort of wrongdoing, or that everything that comes up questionable in my graph is automatically bad news. But whenever a company is getting more than, say, 10% of its cash from operations from these dubious sources, investors ought to make sure to refer to the filings and dig in.

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SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 18, 2013) -

Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, today announced an upcoming free webinar with Cloud Computing Evangelist for Platform D, Dave Nielsen, and DevOps Evangelist for Serena, Jonathan Thorpe.

Nielsen and Thorpe will team to showcase how to build a complete DevOps automated solution by leveraging both commercial software and open source technology, thus saving IT teams time and cost and also eliminating the need for a dedicated team to maintain tools. Additionally, attendees will learn about the hidden costs when using open source or commercial tools exclusively, the benefits of using the two approaches in tandem, and tips and best practices for DevOps automation success.

Event detailsWhat: "Adding Value to Open Source using Commercial Software" When: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET/ 4 p.m. GMT; note: replay of the webinar will be available following the live broadcast Who: Dave Nielsen, Co-founder of CloudCamp & Cloud Computing Evangelist at Platform D and Jonathan Thorpe, DevOps Evangelist at Serena For more information and registration: http://info.serena.com/RLM_Email_DevOpsOpenSourceWebcastJune25_CRM_Serena.comMMAWebcastApril2013_Webinar__LP.html

Serena orchestrates IT for enterprise organizations across the end-to-end application delivery lifecycle. IT organizations can coordinate disparate processes, multiple tools and globally distributed teams from initial business request, all the way to final production release. Serena helps IT engage more rapidly and accurately with the business, accelerate globally distributed water-scrum-fall development and deliver applications more frequently into production -- all while maintaining enterprise visibility and compliance to corporate and regulatory standards.

You can find a complete list of upcoming and on-demand webinars on the Serena website. Register for next month's DevOps Drive-In feature, "Agile DevOps: Application and Infrastructure Automation with Serena Release Manager" scheduled for July 25th.

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Tweet this: @SerenaSoftware hosts June 26 #DevOps Drive-In webinar, to register at http://bit.ly/OpenSourceWebinar

About Serena SoftwareSerena Software provides Orchestrated IT solutions to the Global 2000. Serena's core purpose is to advance the business value of IT. Our 4,000 active enterprise customers, encompassing one million users worldwide, have made Serena the largest independent ALM vendor and the only one that orchestrates DevOps, the processes that bring together application development and operations.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Serena serves enterprise customers from 29 offices in 14 countries. Serena is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, the leader in private investments in technology-enabled industries.

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Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in messaging threat protection for communication service providers, today announced the latest version of Cloudmark DesktopOne for Mac, the award-winning anti-spam solution for consumers and small businesses. With Cloudmark DesktopOne for Mac, users can filter email to eliminate messaging threats, protecting them against spam, phishing and email-borne viruses. With this release, Cloudmark DesktopOne for Mac features new support for Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as new usability and performance enhancements to make it even easier for users to benefit from powerful, carrier-grade anti-spam protection.

With Cloudmarks latest release, Mac users can filter their email at no cost immediately after installing the solution. Cloudmark DesktopOne for Mac now integrates with Mozilla Foundations free email client, Thunderbird, as well as Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 and supports Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion OSX versions. The newest version also features an enhanced user interface, including easier access on Outlook with a Cloudmark DesktopOne button on the ribbon, superior performance and connectivity improvements.

Email continues to be a popular avenue for attackers looking to spread malware, viruses or to prey upon unsuspecting individuals, said Leon Rishniw, senior vice president of engineering, Cloudmark. Our continued innovation of Cloudmark DesktopOne is fueled by our passion for killing spam and giving consumers, small businesses and families worldwide greater peace of mind and a safer, more productive email experience.

DesktopOne leverages Cloudmarks award-winning technology and real-time feedback from millions of email users in the Cloudmark network. DesktopOne users are part of a global community, whose contributions provide their fellow users with real-time protection against real threats.

To protect multiple email accounts and benefit from additional customization and control, users can select Cloudmark DesktopOne for Macs subscription-based Pro Mode. Ideal for families, small businesses and power users, Pro Mode enables users to centrally manage their messaging protection for all their email accounts. Cloudmark DesktopOne for Macs Pro Mode also provides additional capabilities for manually screening message folders, trusting specified contacts and automatically deleting old spam messages.

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Cloudmark DesktopOne for Mac in Basic Mode is free for individual users to filter one email account into a single spam folder. Users who would like to manage multiple email accounts and folders can upgrade to Cloudmark DesktopOne in Pro Mode for $19.95 per year.

More information about Cloudmark DesktopOne is available at: http://www.cloudmarkdesktop.com/.

To download the latest edition of Cloudmark DesktopOne for Mac, please visit: http://www.cloudmarkdesktop.com/en/mycloudmark/download/cdom.

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The UK Free Software Network (UKFSN), a small internet access and web hosting provider that helps to fund free software projects from its profits, has today officially been struck off and dissolved by Companies House (company no. 05292112). But happily the ISP is not dead and will continue to operate.

Ordinarily a dissolved company would close and be removed from Companies House. As part of this its cash and assets would then transfer to The Crown (state), unless a process of company restoration is started. Butat UKFSN the situation is a bit more complex.

Name & Registered Office: UK FREE SOFTWARE NETWORK LIMITED FLAT 4, 199A SHENLEY ROAD BOREHAMWOOD HERTFORDSHIRE ENGLAND WD6 1AT Company No. 05292112

Status: Dissolved 18/06/2013 Date of Incorporation: 19/11/2004 Last Return Made Up To: 16/11/2011

The boss of UKFSN, Jason Clifford, has sinceinformed ISPreview.co.uk that he operated the companys service under license and had always owned the domain and ran UKFSN for a couple of years prior to registering the company. Clifford states that he took the decision to cease that arrangement and instead run UKFSN as a sole trader some time ago, which means that customers should not see any change as a result of this and the service will continue.

Unfortunately the situation has coincided with some troubled technical changes (planned upgrades) to the ISPs email and web hosting services, which didnt go according to plan and caused a number of the providers customers to fear for the future of their service.

UKFSN Web Hosting Status Update

The server hosting the UKFSN web service started to develop problems so it was necessary to migrate to a new server urgently. Doing so meant a major software upgrade as the old hosting environment was rather dated.

Unfortunately the current version of Debian has changed a number of system components that are critical to the UKFSN service including 3 specific changes which caused serious problems on the new platform which did not manifest until after the migration had been done. Some of these were very difficult to diagnose and required a lot of work to fix.

Its taken several days to get things sorted out but I think everything is working properly as of this morning.

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Broadband ISP UKFSN Dissolved But Will Continue to Function